U+8CB7 "買" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8CB7 "買" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to buy" or "to purchase," and it is composed of the radical for "net" or "shell" (貝) at the top, symbolizing wealth or trade, with a component below that historically relates to gathering or exchanging goods. This character is widely used in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, appearing in everyday terms like "購買" (gòumǎi) in Chinese and "買い物" (kaimono) in Japanese. Its structure reflects ancient commercial practices, where shells served as currency, and it remains a fundamental logogram in East Asian typography and digital text encoding for representing the act of acquisition.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8CB7
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
買
HTML Hex Encoding
買
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xB2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8CB7
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008CB7
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8cb7
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B652
kCCCII
21597A
kCNS1986
1-6239
kCNS1992
1-6239
kCangjie
WLBUC
kCantonese
maai5
kCihaiT
1272.402
kCowles
2569
kDaeJaweon
1669.090
kDefinition
buy, purchase; bribe, persuade
kEACC
21597A
kFanqie
莫蟹
kFenn
863A
kFennIndex
327.09 328.01
kFourCornerCode
6080.6
kGB1
3482
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
1240c
kHangul
매:0E
kHanYu
63633.070
kHanyuPinlu
mǎi(774)
kHanyuPinyin
63633.070:mǎi
kHKGlyph
3911
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63633.070
kIRG_GSource
G1-4272
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B652
kIRG_JSource
J0-4763
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-DCC6
kIRG_KSource
K0-5862
kIRG_TSource
T1-6239
kIRG_VSource
V1-682A
kJapanese
バイ マイ かう
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
KAU
kJapaneseOn
BAI
kJis0
3967
kKangXi
1206.210
kKorean
MAY
kLau
2052
kMandarin
mǎi
kMatthews
4322
kMeyerWempe
1738
kMojiJoho
MJ025027
kMorohashi
36708
kNelson
3637
kPhonetic
864 1083
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3353+122.5.7 C+3353+154.7.5
kRSUnicode
154.5
kSBGY
270.38
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
665.03 535.17
kSMSZD2003Readings
mǎi粵maai5
kTaiwanTelegraph
6314
kTang
*mɛ̌i
kTotalStrokes
12
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
mãi
kXerox
243:072
kXHC1983
0759.021:mǎi